Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule by Ann Laura Stoler

Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule

Ann Laura Stoler

341 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative slow-paced

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Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cult...

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